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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5311
EAN: 9780307405159
ISBN: 030740515X
Label: Crown
Manufacturer: Crown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
Publisher: Crown
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Studio: Crown

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Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.

Among the British and Churchillian blunders were:

• The secret decision of a tiny cabal in the inner Cabinet in 1906 to take Britain straight to war against Germany, should she invade France
• The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that muti- lated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler
• Britain’s capitulation, at Churchill’s urging, to American pressure to sever the Anglo- Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan, pushing her onto the path of militarism and conquest
• The 1935 sanctions that drove Italy straight into the Axis with Hitler
• The greatest blunder in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939—that guaranteed the Second World War
• Churchill’s astonishing blindness to Stalin’s true ambitions.

Certain to create controversy and spirited argument, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War” is a grand and bold insight into the historic failures of judgment that ended centuries of European rule and guaranteed a future no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.

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- Churchil / Hitler
Pat Buchanen has hit it right but for most people they cant handle the truce. Its to bad because they are running through life with their head in the sand like an ostrich. Often the truce hurts but one can not get away from it.
At least now I know that I am not the only one who things that way

Herb Voigt

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- Stirring the Pot
Buchanan stakes out some pretty controversial positions here. But, agree or not, he raises questions seldom dealt with in public, and ones that go to the heart of the West's presumed moral authority in its two wars with Germany. Crucially, his is not an apologia for Hitler or the Third Reich. Their wretched horrors during WWII are acknowledged without reserve. Rather, it's an effort to put the diplomatic moves preceding WWII into a more balanced and accurate perspective than the American public is ... Read More

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- Generally Excellent and Thought-Provoking
I've read enough about WWII and National Socialist Germany to know that Mr. Buchanan is well-informed on these subjects. He has done his work in researching Churchill's history, especially as regards diplomatic and military decisions. The result is not flattering to Winston.

He has definitely made his case that WWI was unnecessary, avoidable, and a disastrous blow to Western Europe...with the most significant damage accruing to Germany. He documents how it was not the Kaiser's intent ... Read More

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- It's long over due.
I appreciate Mr. Buchanan's courage and straightforwardness in describing in an unbiased manner the various factors and people who played an important role in bringing about both the First and Second World Wars. The tendency has been to oversimplfy the causes of both conflicts, and to minimize the influence the harsh conditions imposed on the vanquished nations of World War I had in bringing about the second conflict. It was a horrible tragedy for our entire civilization that these 'civil wars' as Mr. ... Read More

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- WHAT ABOUT HITLER'S ATOM BOMB?
I assumed I would give this book only one star until 1) I read the book, 2) I saw Buchanan's discussion of the book on C-Span2's "Book TV" and 3) saw the fascinating 40 minute C-Span2 follow-up visit to his home where he explained his library and writing process. I now believe that this is a necessary book to read if one is seriously interested in political history of the 20th century. The book presents an aggressively contrarian view of the history and consequences of WW I and WW II. Unless, however, ... Read More

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